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Jessie J is giving an update on her health after breast cancer surgery, revealing she needs to have another surgery.

The Bang Bang singer took to her Instagram account on Friday, August 8, to share insight into her juggle between motherhood and a new music project while she recovers from recent surgery.

In the recent post, the Price Tag singer shared a list of things that need to be done this year. She penned, “Another surgery needed this year. I can do it. (green tick emoji) Raising a toddler. I can do it. (green tick emoji) Releasing new music. I can do it.(green tick emoji) ”

She went on to explain, “I can rest, parent AND release new music. I didn’t leave a major label after 18 years to be scared to re write the rules to fit around my life / health. I just have to make it realistic on what I can deliver in all roles in my life.”

Jessie shared insights into her recovery writing, “I am 7 weeks post-breast cancer surgery. I’m still in the thick of recovery and my body is still finding its way. But I LOVE music and I LOVE my life and I want to LIVE in the moment,”

“That’s life, things change and either we panic and get mad that it isn’t what is was going to be, or we ADAPT,” she acknowledged.

Right now, she is “just flowing with life. Learning about who I am in motherhood and when my health goes left unexpectedly.”

“Life is layered and has highs and lows and we just have to keep living through all of it, the best we can. So here I am. LIVING,” she concluded.

Moreover, in the video shared in the post of Jessie while she glammed up, the date 29th August popped on screen, which appears to be her new album release date.

It is pertinent to mention that Jessie shares son Sky Safir, 2, with boyfriend Chanan Safir Colman.

The 77th annual Emmy Awards are next month, and you better believe RT is delivering another awards ballot, complete with Tomatometer and Popcornmeter scores for each nominated series. Will Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s The Studio sweep the competition after nabbing 23 noms? Will Jean Smart keep the crown for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series? Or will Kristen Bell take home her first Emmy for Nobody Wants This? And speaking of firsts, let’s see if Tramell Tillman will take the hardware after his breakout performance as Seth Milchick in Severance. Download and print the ballot below and mark who you think will dominate TV’s biggest night!  

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The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony airs live Sunday, September 14, live on CBS at 8:00 p.m. ET/ 5:00 p.m. PT

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Princess Eugenie rang in her sister Princess Beatrice’s 37th birthday with a sweet Instagram post on Friday, sharing previously unseen photos of the royal siblings.

“Happy happy birthday to my dearest Beabea… my big sissy, the best in the entire world,” Eugenie captioned her latest carousel.

Eugenie’s slideshow also included a selfie of the sisters with their mother, Sarah Ferguson. In another snap, the Princesses enjoy Joe & the Juice paninis.

Earlier this summer, Eugenie blossomed in a Rebecca Vallance sundress at a speaking engagement in Nice, France. Her $800 frock, printed with orchids, featured a halter silhouette and a knotted belt at the waist.

Completing her look with nude satin peep-toe mules and mushroom dangle earrings, Eugenie wore her auburn tresses in a low pony.

The Princess of York became a global ambassador for Thirty Six For Coral in May. Staged by The Coral Collective, the art exhibition supports reef conservation. Eugenie’s background as a gallerist comes in handy for her new patronage.

“My work in art as a Director at Hauser & Wirth has deeply shaped my approach to environmental advocacy because I see art as a powerful medium for storytelling, connection, and impact,” she told Marie Claire. “I’ve always loved how art can communicate complex emotions and ideas in a way that resonates deeply and personally with people.”

Held at the iconic Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat in Nice, the exhibit features works from 36 artists, including Girls star Jemima Kirke and Madonna’s son Rocco Ritchie.

In May, Eugenie celebrated her son Ernest’s second birthday. The Princess also shares a four-year-old son, August, with husband Jack Brooksbank.

“Happy Birthday my darling Ernie,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “2 today! And what an incredible two years it’s been. Always smiling, always laughing, always giving hugs and hello’s and making everyone happy. My golden boy, we love you! 🥰”

The Kansas City Chiefs’ disappointing loss at the 2025 Super Bowl is one that fans of the team — including Taylor Swift and MGK — will remember all too well.

Both musicians were present at the big game against the Philadelphia Eagles in February, with the pop star there to support boyfriend Travis Kelce and the former rapper on site to cheer on Kansas City before performing at the team’s afterparty later that night. But while hopes that the Chiefs could snag a “three-peat” Super Bowl win were high at the beginning of the game, they quickly faltered as the Eagles kept scoring to win 40-22 — something MGK reflected on talking to Swift about that day in an interview with ABC News on Wednesday (Aug. 6).

“I was in Travis’ suite, and at the beginning of it, Taylor was like, ‘Hell yeah, we’re gonna come watch you perform, it’s gonna be crazy tonight,’” the musician began. “Internally, I was stoked. I was like, ‘Oh what a legendary night this is gonna be.’”

“By the third quarter, dude, I was looking at that score,” he continued, laughing at the memory. “I went up to Taylor, I was like, ‘Y’all aren’t coming tonight, huh?’ She was like, ‘I don’t think so, man. I’ll see if I can get [Travis] to get out, but I don’t think [so].’”

MGK still had to perform at the losing team’s post-game party in New Orleans that night — a gig he does not recommend to other artists. “Don’t ever sign yourself up for that,” he said before joking, “Wait to sign the paper ’til third quarter or something, ’til it looks like it’s going one way or the other.”

But while the afterparty was a little bit grim, MGK will always support Kelce — a fellow Ohioan — and the rest of the Chiefs. “That’s my dawg,” the artist added of the athlete. “He’s from Cleveland. He’s from right next to where I’m from.”

Shortly after the interview, MGK went on to release his new album, Lost Americana, on Friday (Aug. 8). With none other than Bob Dylan in his corner during the rollout, his rootsy new project marks a shift away from the hip-hop and pop-punk genres he previously experimented with.

As for the Chiefs, Kelce and his teammates have been hard at work training for the upcoming season, which kicks off in early September. And after becoming a mainstay at Arrowhead Stadium throughout the past two NFL seasons after beginning her romance with the tight end in 2023, Swift is expected to appear at even more games this year now that she’s finished her global Eras Tour.

Watch MGK recall his conversation with Swift at the Super Bowl below.

New Line has no intention of trying to stop death. In fact, it’s inviting even more.

The Warner Bros. division is moving forward with a follow-up to its horror hit Final Destination: Bloodlines, hiring that movie’s co-writer, Lori Evans Taylor, to pen the next installment.

The hiring comes after Bloodlines, released in May, grossed over $286 million at the worldwide box office, $138.1 million of that domestically. That movie was the sixth installment of the horror franchise and the first one since 2011.

It was by far the most successful outing of the movie series, with its domestic total more than double the next movie down, 2009’s The Final Destination.

Taylor was a key player on the script, which was co-written with Guy Busick (Ready or Not) from a story by Taylor, Busick, and Jon Watts, the Spider-Man: Homecoming director who was creatively involved with Bloodlines. Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein directed the film.

Destination franchise producer and steward Craig Perry and franchise veteran Sheila Hanahan Taylor are back producing, as are Watts and his wife, Dianne McGunigle, along with Toby Emmerich. (Fun fact: Watts and McGunigle’s very first date was going to see a Final Destination movie.)

Warren Zide will exec produce.

Destination was a surprise hit franchise for New Line in the early 2000s, with a concept that proved easy to transfer from movie to movie, locale to locale, victim to unwitting victim. Each movie centered on a character who has a premonition of a horrific and deadly event. They cheat his or her own death and save several other lives in the process, only to have Death, personified as an unstoppable force of nature, come for the survivors one by one.

The movie series has earned over $983 million worldwide, making it New Line’s third-biggest horror franchise behind the record-breaking $2.3 billion-grossing The Conjuring Universe and $1.2 billion-generating It films.

One of few women killing it in the horror field, Taylor penned the adaptation of Carla Norton’s serial killer novel The Edge of Normal, which wrapped in spring 2025 with Chloë Grace Moretz starring and Carlota Pereda directing.

Her previous credits include the psychological thriller Cellar Door and her directorial debut Bed Rest, a supernatural thriller starring Melissa Barrera. Taylor also adapted I Am Still Alive for Universal with Ben Affleck attached to star and produce.

She is repped by WME, Kaplan/Perrone and McKuin, Frankel.

Sami Sheen, daughter of actors Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen, recently shared a troubling experience on TikTok, claiming she narrowly avoided a possible sex trafficking attempt while out with friends.

In the video, posted earlier this week, the 21-year-old model and influencer said the incident occurred late Monday night after she and her friends left a restaurant around midnight. While taking photos in the parking lot, Sheen said a man approached them asking for money. Despite telling him she didn’t have cash, she claimed the man became increasingly insistent, even suggesting payment through apps like Zelle or Venmo.

Shortly after that encounter, Sheen said a second man appeared, triggering an intense sense of fear. “The second I saw this man, I had the worst feeling in my stomach,” she recalled, adding that he began asking if she spoke Spanish and saying other things she couldn’t understand.

As the man reached into his back pocket, Sheen said she pulled out her pepper spray, prompting him to instead pull out a card. At that moment, she and her friend ran to their car and locked the doors.

Once safely inside the vehicle, Sheen said they reviewed photos taken earlier and noticed the first man had been watching them the entire time. She included an image of him in her TikTok and used the moment to urge her followers to stay alert and trust their instincts.

“I’m usually very aware of my surroundings, and I did not notice this man,” she said. “Even if it was harmless, it’s better to be safe than sorry.”

The incident comes amid a turbulent time for Sheen’s mother, Denise Richards, who is currently involved in a high-profile divorce and legal dispute with estranged husband Aaron Phypers.

Blake Lively‘s deposition in her sexual harassment and retaliation suit against Justin Baldoni has been cut from the court record today under the order of a federal judge.

Already fighting this week with his insurance companies over legal fees in the It Ends with Us sexual harassment and retaliation battle with Lively, Baldoni, his Wayfarer Studios execs and lawyers also just got their knuckles very publicly rapped for overplaying their hand.

“The Wayfarer Parties’ attachment of the entire, nearly 300-page deposition—after citing only two pages of it in the Letter—served no proper litigation purpose and instead appears to have been intended to burden Lively (and as a result, the Court) and to invite public speculation and scandal,” admonished Judge Lewis Liman on Friday in a stinging order agreeing with Lively’s motion to strike to keep her July 31 deposition sealed, out of the court docket and out of the headlines and posts.

Liman has offered nothing yet on the recent request by the Another Simple Favor star’s attorneys for sanctions against Baldoni lawyer Bryan Freedman for allegedly “publicly slandering” Lively. The judge today was responding to the actress’ August 4 filing to strike after her IEWU director/co-star’s team sent a letter with a small portion of her well-publicized depo in it and an accompanying sealed and uncertified transcript. On August 6, after also taking the slings and arrows of accusations of leaks to tabloids and others about the actual deposition and who was there — Ryan Reynolds and on the other side of the table, most of Baldoni’s inner circle and fellow defendants — attorney Kevin Fritz essentially countered that the lady doth protest too much.

“The deposition transcript records Ms. Lively’s own words,” the Meister, Seelig & Finn partner pointed out in a filed letter of his own to Judge Liman, mocking the use of the term “rough draft” in the initial filing, among other things. “Ms. Lively contends that the transcript must be stricken based on her speculation that it was filed for the ‘purpose of the transcript into the public domain as fodder for [their] media campaign.’ The transcript, however, was filed under seal and Ms. Lively has the option of moving to keep the document sealed; although it is puzzling why she seeks to conceal her own testimony in an action in which she is the plaintiff.”

Less than eight months before the high-wire trial kicks off in New York City in federal court, Judge Liman today really wasn’t picking up what Fritz and Team Baldoni were trying to put down.

“Even if the cited deposition portions were relevant or provided support for the Wayfarer Parties’ arguments—both of which are far from clear—the Wayfarer Parties have not even attempted to argue that the entire deposition was relevant,” he wrote in Friday’s four-page order to strike the attachment. “Nor could they. The conclusion is inescapable that the Wayfarer Parties filed gratuitous amounts of irrelevant pages so that, if Lively moved for continued sealing of the irrelevant pages, the Wayfarer Parties could then use Lively’s response for their own public-relations purposes,”

Then there’s the subtext kicker: “The Court has not only the power but also the responsibility to step in.”

Perhaps out in the August sun, neither reps for Lively or Baldoni responded to Deadline’s request for comment on today’s order. Then again, with nothing from the court yet on the sanctions move by Lively’s side against Baldoni’s top lawyer, maybe everyone being circumspect in anticipation of what’s next in a case that since December last year always seems to provided more gristle at every turn — with more likely to come.

Essie Davis didn’t watch much horror growing up in Tasmania; the 55-year-old actor can still bitterly recall the moment when, aged four, she was left at home while her older siblings went to see Jaws at the local cinema in Hobart.

“I stood by the back door going, ‘I will remember this day for the rest of my life!’” Davis recalls, speaking from her current family home, also in Tasmania.

She finally saw the film on VHS years later, while dating a production designer she had met while performing at Belvoir St theatre. That designer was Justin Kurzel, now one of Australia’s most celebrated directors – and also her husband. Back in the mid-90s, Kurzel’s courtship rituals included a crash course in horror classics – Jaws was high on the list, followed closely by Ridley Scott’s 1979 space slasher Alien.

“I love that first Alien film so much, I wish I’d seen it in a cinema,” Davis says. “They’re definitely a huge part of my film psyche.”

It would take another few decades before Davis entered the Alien universe herself, in a new prequel series set shortly before the original film. Alien: Earth focuses on Wendy (Sydney Chandler), a “forever girl” whose consciousness is transferred from her terminally ill human body to a synthetic one, making her a world-first “hybrid”. Davis plays Dame Sylvia, one of the scientists responsible for Wendy’s second life. In one of many allusions to Peter Pan, Hawley named the character after Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, the real-life mother of the boys who inspired JM Barrie to write his Neverland saga.

The show’s themes – and Sylvia’s attempts to balance Wendy’s humanity with her new, artificial immortality – felt particularly timely to Davis.

“AI was a thing that was coming, but it wasn’t suddenly upon us,” she says. “And then we had the writers’ strike and the actors’ strike, and then ChatGPT suddenly was in the schools in Tasmania, and I was just going, ‘hang on a minute’.

“There’s a tightrope of ethics and morality, and everyone has a different version of it. I really hope that people will enjoy this and get hooked into that quandary of genetic engineering and ethics and that strange quest to own everything and beat everyone and be younger than anyone.”

Davis is a horror icon herself, thanks to a breakout role in Jennifer Kent’s 2014 film The Babadook. The low-budget Australian production became a global hit, with fans including The Exorcist director William Friedkin, who placed the film alongside Alien as one of the scariest films he had ever seen. It remains a modern cult classic 10 years later.

“I remember watching a screening way before it was released, and just went, ‘Oh, this is great, but it’s not scary’,” she says. “And then we went to the Sundance film festival, and I sat up the back as people swore and leapt out of their seats.”

Davis credits the film’s enduring appeal – its top-hatted spook has even been embraced as an unlikely Queer icon – to something deeper than jump scares. “It’s not just a horror film,” she says. “It’s in fact a kind of psychological thriller about mental health and grief and parenting and love.”

It remains a defining role for Davis, alongside her star turn in Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries – the 1920s detective franchise that ran for three series and a film, based on the novels of Kerry Greenwood, who died in April. “A terrible loss, but she’s forever in us now,” says Davis.

“I was crying, working out whether I should do it or not,” she adds, of donning Phryne Fisher’s signature black bob. “I’m really glad I did, because that character was such a positive force, and it’s just so fun to play someone so clever and positive and naughty and irreverent – and someone who really cares about social justice, and is not going to bow for anyone, and stands up for the underdog.”

Along with roles in Game of Thrones, Baby Teeth and Netflix’s One Day, Davis has also collaborated with her film-maker husband, responsible for films including Snowtown, Nitram, and television adaptations of Peter Carey’s The True History of the Kelly Gang and most recently Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Davis appeared in the latter three.

Their kids were old enough to be watching Alien for a high school English class when the script for Alien: Earth hit Davis’s inbox; the series is led by Noah Hawley, the showrunner behind the award-winning small-screen adaptation of Fargo. She was intrigued; the show’s depiction of a future Earth carved up and controlled by mega-corporations – Dame Sylvia is employed by Prodigy, a rival to the franchise’s longstanding faceless villains, the Weyland-Yutani Corporation – particularly resonated with her.

“It’s terribly prescient – the richest of corporations and the richest people taking over the world, essentially running the world,” she says.

For Davis, the perils of corporate profits have been plain to see from her home in Tasmania, where she and Kurzel returned to raise their family.

“It is terrifying what is happening to our beautiful place here in Tassie, and the total corporate capture of our government by big industry,” she says of the controversy around the state’s fish farming industry, of which she has become one of many high-profile critics, alongside Richard Flanagan and former ABC journalist turned political candidate Peter George.

These days, Davis doesn’t have to go to the cinema to witness coastal dread. “When you look out over the water from Bruny Island, everywhere you look you see rows and rows of fish pens, and huge, industrial factory ships,” she says. “We had mass fish mortalities, rotting salmon washing up on our beaches. And 53 cormorants got shot because they were fishing out of the pens.”

Davis says the public opposition to such practices “began as lots of individuals around Tasmania making constructive criticism, and asking for a bit of negotiation on pollution”. It was being ignored by salmon companies and successive governments, she says, that connected and galvanised the far-flung island community.

What began as a movement, Davis says, has now become an “insurrection”, evident in the rise of Peter George, who was elected to Tasmania’s state parliament as an independent days after our interview.

“But we’re not going to stop,” she says. “We’re just going to keep on until we have people representing the people of Tasmania and not just corporations and party politics.

“I guess Alien is a warning, isn’t it?” she adds. “A warning of what greed and money and this kind of pursuit of immortality can do to a planet.”

Machine Gun Kelly has finally broken the silence on his and Megan Fox shocking split.

On Friday, August 8, the 35-year-old rapper released his new album Lost, titled Lost Americana, taking full responsibility for “breaking his home.”

It is pertinent to mention that the Emo Girl rapper and the Jennifer’s Body alum announced their split in November 2024 while Fox was pregnant with their baby girl, Saga Blade.

Fans were left shocked at the time, and rumors were spiraling that Fox had discovered Kelly was talking to other women.

Now, MGK, whose real name is Colson Baker, has confessed in his new track that the former couple ended their relationship because of him.

The lyrics of the song Treading Water read, “This’ll be the last time you hear me say sorry / That’ll be the last tear you waste on me crying / I broke this home, and just like my father, I’ll die all alonе.

“This’ll be the last time you hear me say sorry / That’ll be the last tear you waste on me crying / I broke this home,” Kelly sings.

Elsewhere in the song, MGK confessed his love for the actress and made a promise to change for his and Fox’s daughter, Saga, whom they welcomed in March.

“The beast killed the beauty; the last petal fell from the rose / And I loved you truly, that’s why it’s hard to let it go,” the dad of two continued, adding, “I broke this home, but I’ll change for our daughter, so she’s not alone.” 

Jennifer Lopez had some time to kill in Istanbul earlier this week before her headline performance in the city’s Yenikapi Festival Park on Tuesday (Aug. 5). So, according to Turkish media reports, she took a few hours on Monday to go shopping in the upscale Istinye Park mall, with a stop at the Chanel shop.

However, as reported in Patronlar Dünyasi, when Lopez attempted to enter the store, a security guard who seemingly didn’t recognize the singer-actress told her that she couldn’t enter because the store was at capacity, which Billboard can confirm. The report, which appeared to have photos of the incident described, said that Lopez appeared unbothered and said, “OK, no problem.”

The store security reportedly approached Lopez later during her shopping trip and welcomed her to visit the Chanel location, though the publication said she declined the invite.

This isn’t the first time this summer the superstar has had a classy response when things didn’t go quite as planned. When she experienced a wardrobe malfunction during her July 25 show, she tossed her skirt — which had fallen to the floor and couldn’t be re-attached — into the crowd and laughed off the snafu. “I’m glad I had underwear on,” she joked. “I don’t usually wear underwear.”

Lopez is in the midst of her Up All Night: Live in 2025 tour, which kicked off on July 8 in Pontevedra, Spain, and has so far taken her to Hungary, Italy, Turkey, Poland, Romania, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kazakstan and Armenia, with two remaining dates in Almaty, Kazakstan, on Aug. 10, and Sardinia, Italy, on Aug. 12.

Next up for the multi-hyphenate is the anticipated film adaptation of Kiss of the Spider Woman, the Bill Condon written and directed musical also featuring Diego Luna and Tonatiuh Elizarraraz due out in theaters on Oct. 10.